Britney Spears is scheduled to appear virtually in downtown L.A. at a hearing regarding her long-running conservatorship, which has been in place since 2008.
It’s scheduled for 1:30 p.m. PST today and the question on many minds is whether Spears will request that her conservatorship, or part of it, be removed. latimes.com/entertainment-…
Spears’ personal and financial lives have been under the control of the conservatorship since 2008, after her life unraveled amid unrelenting public scrutiny in 2007.
In August 2020, Spears issued a strong statement about her wishes in regards to her father being her sole conservator in court documents, via her attorney latimes.com/entertainment-…
Spears fans are likely to gather — and protest — outside the courthouse as they have during prior hearings. A #FreeBritney rally will definitely take place at Grand Park. latimes.com/entertainment-…
The #FreeBritney campaign has been around since 2009, but Jamie Spears recently said that the movement’s organizers are “conspiracy theorists.” latimes.com/entertainment-…
In 2020, we spent three months examining Spears’ conservatorship and reaching out to those who might have seen firsthand how it has affected her.
Out of her conservatorship, out of her care appointments as currently structured, out of paying the people — presumably her conservators — who tell her “no” all the time. #BritneySpeakslatimes.com/entertainment-…
“Now I’m telling the truth, OK, I’m not happy. I’m so angry it’s insane, and I’m depressed. I cry every day,” Britney Spears said. All the state of California seemed able to do, she said, was to hire people using her money to complicate her life. latimes.com/entertainment-…
“Not only did my family not do a g— thing,” Spears said, “my dad was all for it. Anything that happened to me had to be approved by my dad,” who she said acted like he didn’t know about any of it. latimes.com/entertainment-…
Spears discussed the issues she has with how her conservatorship was handling her therapy appointments and how her team wouldn’t let her have her IUD removed.
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Huynh, an incoming first-year engineering student at Stanford, was raised by Vietnamese American immigrant parents in Sacramento.
She says her experience played a significant role in her poetry and her mission to connect cultures and work toward justice. latimes.com/entertainment-…
“Vietnamese culture has taught me that family and community are the most important things because they make the highs higher and the lows not as low. It’s really important for me to honor the culture that I’ve been brought up in.” latimes.com/entertainment-…
How a California surfer, an anonymous donor, a son of a future's trader and a social media-savvy president are making El Salvador the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender and what it could mean. latimes.com/world-nation/s…
Mike Peterson is a California surfer whose search for the perfect wave led him to a sleepy beach town in El Salvador called El Zonte. Thanks in large part to him, and an anonymous donation, it is now known as Bitcoin Beach. latimes.com/world-nation/s…
Citing the town as inspiration, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele pushed a law through Congress this month that will make his country the first in the world to adopt it as legal tender. latimes.com/world-nation/s…
Who doesn’t have an old dusty basketball, tossed in a closet to live the rest of its days losing air, never to be bounced again? Karissa Allen and Justin Cox definitely don’t because they've upcycled them into planters. (via @Pancakejeesh, @latimesplants) latimes.com/lifestyle/stor…
The two founders of Ol’ Dirty Planters, which gets its name from the late Wu-Tang Clan rap group frontman, were not brought together by basketball. But by a love of art and creativity – and, of course, plants. latimes.com/lifestyle/stor…
Karissa and Justin became fast friends when their career paths crossed. That friendship turned prophetic when they both lost their jobs due to COVID. "We started to brainstorm ways we could create a business...and we settled on basketball planters." latimes.com/lifestyle/stor…